Pain Times Resistance Equals Suffering

In this episode Dr. John Ewing welcomes a diverse team of health and mental health care providers as they discuss pain management in end of life care. Cathy Couture, a licensed marriage and family therapist, shares her journey with a stage 4 cancer diagnosis with us and provides a focus for our discussion of how to manage pain. She shares her concerns about developing an addiction. Dr. Tom Hayes discusses the psychological dimensions of pain and pain management. Dr. David Nelson shares an integrative health approach and explains how suffering is a function of the interaction between physical pain and our psychological resistance to it. transcript

originally posted June 8, 2023